250,000 kms versus 30,000 kms… A coffee chatter gossip built into a bigger story as more people gathered. In my years of running around Mallorca in an increasingly battered car I have clocked up 250,000 kms. This represents my life here from school runs to wedding venues, to hospital vigils, to client meetings, to interviews,…
Music, traffic and winter closures in SollerThe issues that concern Soller people this week are complex and various. The music of the town was high on the agenda as three hundred of us attended the concert to celebrate the patron saint of music – Saint Cecilia. The concert was held in the Convent church at…
THE ANGLICAN MINISTRY IN MALLORCA A chat with an Arch Deacon was my lot this week. He flew in from Germany to chat to the parishioners of the Anglican Church in Palma. The Anglican Church on the island has buildings in Palma, Port of Pollensa and uses a local building in Cala D’or. The churches…
As our City fills with locals, visitors, holiday makers, tourists and strangers take a minute to consider this. The Spanish peninsula and its islands are foreign, in a sense in which France, Italy, Germany and Scandinavia are not. These countries represent near neighbours whom we have often talked with over the garden wall. This is…
It’s all about the Prawn in Soller Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Tuesday 24th February 2014 Photographs by Rachel Fox Soller Prawns are up there with the best in gastronomic terms. They are pinker than the average prawn and almost red in colour and its all thanks to the sea bed around the Port…
The joys of owning a home in Soller Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin on Sunday 30th July 2017 By Shirley Roberts Photographs by Gary Lloyd-Rees For me it all began 18 years ago when our family realised an ambition to have a holiday home in the sun. We researched the places that we had…
Tradition in the Soller Valley By Shirley Roberts Photographs by Rachel Fox Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin on Tuesday 7th February 2017 Majorca is a very traditional island. In all towns and villages and in the City of Palma itself local and national commemorations fill the annual diaries. The City of Soller is right…
HERE COMES WINTER – In Soller – on Wednesday 26th March The temperature is on its way down by 12 degrees from yesterday. SNOW will fall above 900 metres and a little lower down it will RAIN. Heavy bursts of rainfall are expected with hail stones mixed in. Due to start around midday today and…
Soller Cemetery – More than a place of Eternal Rest – An Historical Monument ALL SAINTS DAY – 1st November 2014 It is said that you cannot understand the heart of Soller until you have spent time in its Cemetery. This is a five layered area more like a beautiful public park than a graveyard. …
Let’s hear it for the Soller Valley Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Tuesday 3rd February 2014 Photographs by RACHEL FOX This week the news out of Soller has been great. I know that good news doesn’t sell but I’m delighted that all eyes were on Soller this week at Fitur – the International…
